The man saw the toddler slipping from there and ran towards the building with a woman while speaking on a phone.
Viral Video Today: A man’s heroic rescue of how he caught a toddler who fell from a building is going viral on social media. The incident took place in eastern China. The video was originally posted on Weibo and later surfaced on other platforms.
Taking to Twitter, Lijian Zhao, spokesman and DDG, Information Department, Foreign Ministry in China, shared the video saying, “Heroes among us”. The clip has received over 138k views 7,700 likes. The man, identified as Shen Dong, initially heard a loud bang from the building, reports said, He then realised that it is caused after the two-year-old girl fell on the steel roofing of the building from her apartment’s balcony.
The man saw the toddler slipping from there and ran towards the building with a woman while speaking on a phone. Within moments, he throws his phone and extends his arms upwards and manages to catch the little girl before she could hit the pavement. The kid was immediately taken to a hospital. She sustained injuries but is now stable.
Watch the viral video below:
Not all heroes wear capes!
